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Students: Graduate Information

About Our Programs: The M.A. Reading List

(Select the literary name to go to a list, in a form, to select texts.)

Category A -- Literature and Criticism

Students must choose a minimum of fifteen (15) texts -- or groups of short texts -- from the areas they have chosen to be examined on from this category. Of the 15 total texts for each literary area, two to five must be secondary texts (literary criticism).
  1. Old and Middle English Literature
  2. Renaissance Literature
  3. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
  4. Romantic and Victorian Literature
  5. American Literature to 1900
  6. Modern Literature 1900-1945
  7. Contemporary Literature 1945 to present
  8. Postcolonial Literature
  9. US Ethnic Literature (Directions--Read This First)
    1. African American
    2. American Indian
    3. Asian American
    4. Latino/a
  10. Twentieth-Century Literature
  11. Critical Theory
  12. Digital Media Studies

Category B -- Rhetoric and Composition

Students must choose a minimum of fifteen (15) texts -- or groups of texts -- from the area/s they have chosen to be examined on from this category.
  1. Rhetoric
  2. Composition
  3. Literacy Studies
  4. Digital Media Studies
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Category C -- Related Modes of English Studies

Students must choose a minimum of fifteen (15) texts -- or groups of texts -- from the area/s they have chosen to be examined on from this category.
  1. Bibliography
  2. Creative Writing:
    1. Poetry
    2. Fiction
    3. Nonfiction
  3. Film
  4. Folklore:
    1. Folklore New List
    2. Folklore Old List
  5. Language and Linguistics
  6. Critical Theory
  7. Digital Media Studies
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